Who would win between Joe Louis and Tyson Fury?

I am genuinely interested in this statement. What makes you think Fury would do such a thing when he's known for notoriously prolonging the negotiation progress and changing the terms at the last second?

 

I don't know, that might actually be better for Fury. Keep him focused and busy, away from drugs and his own thoughts. I feel like he would do better fighting every eight weeks against more mediocre opposition in a "come as you are" situation. As opposed to 10 months of hype and build up to face a hyper trained peak opponent. Also losses meant a lot less back then which could make things less stressful

 

Tyson Fury (Wilder 2 fight) would cause big problems for Joe Louis, and win. Fury simply has too many advantages. In addition to physical (reach, height, weight), he has an advantage in footwork, and IMO ring IQ. Fury also has a good chin, and outstanding recovery.

 

This would be a weird fight

 

…Until finally Fury settles for Chisora 4, and tells us all that this will be his hardest ever fight as Chisora is bigger, stronger and more dangerous than any other fighter in the history of the world.
(Swap Chisora 4 for Wilder 4 if you prefer. Same principles apply.)

 

Louis might have had the most powerful combinations in heavy history, and was one of the best finishers.

Fury couldn't keep him off him, he just didn't hit hard enough and he was too Jethro (in a Carnera way) to outsmooth him.

Louis in 10 at the outside.

 

Please, leagues and divisions apart.

Fury is a great guy, but he is subpar as a fighter,

Damn Near ALL the Land of the Giants are.

 

Anyone who thinks Fury would demolish Louis is silly, and anyone who thinks Louis easily defeats Fury is equally as delusional. This is a competitive fight, no doubt about it.

 

A valid argument, which people should consider further.

 

You make some very good points.

 

Please allow me to digress for a minute or two, I started thinking about this during a thread discussing how well Naoya Inoue would or would not do against Ruben Olivares. Not surprisingly, most of the younger posters took Inoue and most of the older ones chose Rockabye Ruben. It occurred to me that the eras were so different that you could not take a boxer from 2022 and think he was going to be the same guy in 1970 and visa versa.

If Inoue was fighting in 1970 he would be fighting a couple times during the six months in between title bouts so he wouldn't training up to a fight to be in optimal shape. By the same token, if Olivares was fighting now he he would have been out of the ring for five or six months and, like Inoue, would be at his best each time.

Okay, that was a longer digression that I thought. I'm sorry about that. If Tyson Fury was fighting in 1939 the only way he would be making any money and the only way he would have a chance of getting a title shot against titleholder Louis is if he had been fighting regularly. Joe's first 21 title defenses were against men who had 65 total fights in the six months before they faced him. So they were fighting all the time to support their families because there just wasn't that much money in the sport. I just don't think Fury has the mental fortitude to deal with that kind of schedule and to be in the kind of shape he would need to be in to be able to defeat a fighter of the quality of Louis.

 

Excellent points. But here’s another way to look at it: Fury fighting all the time to feed that huge family of his would force him to stay fit…fighting all the time has a way of doing that (unless you’re called Tony Galento!) Along with that physical fitness may well come a more focused mind…no time to be sitting at home eating everything in the fridge, (unless you’re Tony Galento!) or looking for drugs to give you a high. Fighting week in week out will be giving you a natural high, and not giving your mind time to wander.

Louis’ era could well have been the making of Fury…in fact it may well have shown us just how good…or otherwise…he really was/ is/could have been.

As it stands now…and this applies not just to Fury of course…fighting so rarely leaves a lot of questions unanswered.

 

Louis would decapitate Fury, unlike Usyk being unable to finish, Louis would have pounced & knocked him out.

 

2 different leagues, separated by 2 tiers!!!

 

I don't agree.

People like to **** on Fury now (with almost savage glee). But the Tyson of Wilder 2 is a HTH nightmare for almost anybody.

Boxing fans are the most fickle of them all.

And with the biggest rose coloured spectacles when it comes to the heavyweights in particular.